William waedman



(No Model.)

W. WARDMAN.

WOOL OOMBING MACHINE.

' Patented Apr.24, 1883.

WITNESSES:

IN'VENTOB:

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM WARDMAN, OF BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GEORGE A. SHOEMAKER, OF SAME PLACE.

WOOL-COMBING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,313, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed December 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM WARDMAN, a citizen of the. United States, residing at Bristol, in the county of Bucks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wool-Oombing Machines, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of part of the wool-combing machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection of the guide and apron thereof in line m at, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists of a wool-combing machine having a guide so disposed in relation to the aprons that the two slivers are collected into one and so directed to the delivery-rollers, whereby several advantages are derived, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A A represent the two aprons, and B the twisting-funnels of a wool combing machine, which parts are mounted and operated as usual in such machines.

0 represents an upright guide, which is formed preferably of iron or steel, secured to the frame ot'the machine and located adjacent to the apron A, so as to leave apassage-way between said guide and apron, it being noticed that the guide 0 is at the side of the noil-apron A, facing the twisted sliver, so as to be between said apron and sliver, whereby the noil is guided to the point a. and prevented from prematurely leaving the apron. 7

It will be seen that when the machine is in operation the two slivers leave their respective aprons and collect at or about the point a, be-

sliver.

yond the discharge end of the guide O, and thus collected are led to the delivery-rollers in a twisted state.

Among the advantages of my invention are the following: a reduction of the noil, a larger production of tops, steadier running of the machine,ability to piece up the noil-sliver with out stopping the machine, and a better condition of thesliver when it leaves the machine, whereby there is a saving of labor and better work in the subsequent manipulations of the Furthermore, the primary twisting of the slivers is uniformly accomplished, since by the useof the guide 0 the two slivers are united at the point, close to the place where they leave the aprons, and there is no premature departureot'the noil-sliver from its apron, as has been heretofore occasioned, such defect causinga breakage of the sliver, the dropping of the broken sliver into the machinery, and the stoppage of the latter, all of which is remedied by the employment of the guide 0. I

The other portions of the machine, which form no part of the present invention, are well known and in common use for many years, and are substantially represented in the British Patent No. 1,706 of the year 1874.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a wool-combing machine, the apronsA A, in combination with the guide 0, which is located on the side of the apron A, the same adapted to face the twisted sliver, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WM. WARDMAN.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH R. GRUNDY, JOHN BAKER. 

